A System for Interactive Authorization for Business Processes for Web Services

Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for virtual organization. In such cross organizational partnerships no business partner may guess a priori what kind of credentials will be sent by clients nor the clients may know a priori the needed credentials for the successful completion of a business process. This requires an interaction between server and clients. We propose a framework for managing the authorization interactions for business processes and a BPEL4WS based implementation using Collaxa server. Our model is based on interaction between servers and clients and exchange of requests for supplying or declining missing credentials.